(a) A step in a stairway or flight of steps; also, a flight of steps; song (canticle) of gres, one of the Gradual Psalms; ~ bi ~, from ~ to ~, step by step; (b) a rung of a ladder; also fig.; fro ~ to ~; wei of grees, a ladder; (d) a step or stage in a process or development; a stage in the scale of virtue; fro ~ to ~; (d) a raised platform or perch of some kind; (e) a gradation in virtue or knowledge; a degree of intensity of color; a degree in severity of a disease; (f) in no manere ~, of no ~, not at all, in no respect.

Victory in battle, tournament, or combat; the prize for victory; ~ of, victory over (sb.); ~ of feld (tournement); ~ yeving, awarding of the victor's prize; winnen (beren, geten, haven, taken) the ~, to win the victory or the prize; yeven (graunten) ~, award (sb.) the victor's prize; fig. cause (sb.) to be victorious.

(a) Rank, position, dignity; an order or rank in society, government, or the Church; fro ~ to ~, from one order to the next above; (b) a position in the line of descent from an ancestor; fro ~ to ~, in order of descent; (c) a degree of kinship; (d) a university degree.

(a) Phys., anat., & med. One of the four degrees of intensity of the primary qualities (hot, cold, moist and dry) [cp. degre 12]; the strength of a medicine with regard to one or more of these qualities; (b) astron. a degree of arc, 1/360 of a circle; (c) a division on a sundial; (d) a measure of length, ?a yard.